Feilding - Archives and Genealogy

24/05/2026

Bring along your treasured photos and learn how to preserve your memories digitally with hands-on guidance from Manawatū Community Hub Libraries (MCHL) Digital Specialist Warrick Taylor on how to use the simple Epson photo scanning system next Friday, 29 May.

👉Digitise Your Photos (free)
🕑10:00am – 11:00am (last Friday of each month)
📍Heritage Area of Te Āhuru Mōwai, 64 Stafford Street, Feilding

22/05/2026

Tony Waugh has recently completed a book titled Ōtamakapua – ‘Child of the Cloud’ — The people, people, the land and the settlements of the Northern Manawatū, which looks at how land, law, and settlement shaped the inland Rangitīkei–Manawatū district. While it focuses on the Ōtamakapua Block, it connects directly to wider New Zealand themes — Māori land tenure, Crown purchasing, settlement schemes, and the long-term impacts of those processes.
The book brings together iwi traditions, government records, and local experience to tell that story in a way that is grounded in place but relevant more broadly.
Book Launches are planned at
Hansens café, Kimbolton Sunday 7 June 1:30pm
Coach House Museum, Feilding Thursday 11 June 11:30am
Palmerston North Central Library, Thursday 11 June 6:30pm
Awestone café, Mangaweka Saturday 20 June 2pm.
A Flipbook gives a sample of the book’s contents. https://online.fliphtml5.com/Otamakapua/Otamakapua-EXCERPTS-for-flipbook-4May26/ =18

11/05/2026

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Writer and historian Ann Beaglehole has released a striking memoir recounting her family's journey to New Zealand as refugees fleeing the Hungarian Revolution.

07/05/2026

'You can just type in a name and find exactly what you want.'

02/05/2026

Can you spare some time on a Thursday to help at the Feilding & Districts Community Archive? Volunteers are needed to preserve donations like in the photo, brush dust off them, write lists of items, and put them in archival envelopes and boxes. People who like searching out answers to queries are needed as sharing copies of the items with descendants or the community is why they are being preserved. Please consider giving a few hours of your time

02/05/2026

I have been unable to connect to messenger for a couple of days now so if anyone has left messages for me I haven't read them. Perhaps send an email instead?

25/04/2026

Today is International DNA Day. It is to commemorate the 1953 discovery of the DNA double helix by Watson and Crick. Have you checked out the DNA resources on our website? https://genealogy.org.nz/DNA-Overview/11167/

25/04/2026